IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo' Reviewed in the Canberra Times & Saturday Paper

Imants Tillers' ‘Credo’ was reviewed by Sasha Grishin in The Canberra Times and Miriam Cosic in The Saturday Paper last Sat 18 Feb.

“Now aged in his early 70s, there is a distilled wisdom in his late pronouncements, where he makes no attempt to dazzle or impress the reader and admits that, as a university graduate, he had never heard of Duchamp and that many of the breaks and changes in his career came about by chance. He frequently happened to be at the right time at the right place and encountered people who were to have a profound impact on his art.” - Sasha Grishin

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PAT BRASSINGTON Featured in Art Guide Australia

Pat Brassington, Parachute, (detail) 2005, pigment print, 82 x 62cm, Purchased 2018, 2018.035, Wollongong Art Gallery.

"PAT BRASSINGTON, in 'Parachute', 2005, deploys pink like a narcotic, using it to wash her strange scene in a dreamy and unsettling light." Jane O'Sullivan writing for ART GUIDE.

This is the last week to see Brassington, alongside Jacky Redgate, John Brack, David McDiarmid and more in THINKING THROUGH PINK at the Wollongong Art Gallery, guest curated by Sally Grey.

ANNE ZAHALKA Features in 'Recreation: Art, Sport and Leisure' at Project8 Gallery

See this dazzling ANNE ZAHALKA work on display in the exhibition RECREATION: ART, SPORT AND LEISURE opening tonight from 6PM at Project8 Gallery.

'Santa’s Kingdom Christmas Tunnel, Fox Studios, Sydney' (2003/04) depicts adults wandering mesmerised through a tunnel decorated with Christmas baubles and fairy lights. Transported to a world of make-believe, they obediently file through on their journey to Santa’s Kingdom. Thsi work was the pinnacle of Zahalka's ‘Leisureland’ series.

See you at @project8gallery Friday 24 February, Level 2, 417 Collins Street Melbourne.

MURRAY FREDERICKS 'Witness' Opens at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

WITNESS, a showcase of majestic, large-scale images by MURRAY FREDERICKS, opens tomorrow at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.

Featuring works from his acclaimed 'Salt', 'Icesheet' and 'Hector' series, the artist hopes that "the spaces in these images will open up to the viewers another space, a greater space, where they can insert their own meanings into the photographic moment."

Fredericks will also be in conversation on Saturday, 25 February. Bookings essential, on the @qvmag_official website.

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Murray Fredericks photographed by Michael Angus

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MURRAY FREDERICKS, 'Salt 112', 2006, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 150cm.

DANI MARTI 'Orifices' Features in 'Inside/Out' at The Night Galleries

DANI MARTI'S 'Orifices' features in the exhibition 'Inside/Out' at the Night Galleries in Kuwumi Place, Newcastle, to celebrate Sydney WorldPride.

Newcastle Art Gallery has partnered with curator Jasmine Fletcher (@flowersandrice), founder of local community organisation Queer and Now, to develop 'Inside/Out', an exhibition that brings together works by local artists with those from the Gallery's collection.

'Inside/Out' speaks to the dichotomy of invisible and visible queer experience. The exhibition celebrates the central role of art in rendering visible the full spectrum of queer experience.

The exhibition opens tonight, 5-8pm.

Dani Marti, 'Orifices', 2000-2005.

'GUAN WEI: Out of The Ordinary' Opens at Vermillion Art

Guan Wei, 'Ocean 1', 2013, bronze, edition of 5, 35 x 49 x 33 cm.

'GUAN WEI: Out of the Ordinary' has just opened at Vermillion Art in Sydney.

This exhibition is a selection of Guan Wei’s work over the last 12 years. In the ancient Chinese calendar, 12 years is one Ji (一纪 ). It also refers to sufficient time for a major journey. Guan Wei has imbued his works with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. He entices us to go beyond the ordinary, with him on this brilliant odyssey.

The exhibition continues until 16 March.

CATHERINE WOO Commission at Merinda Park Station Now Open

CATHERINE WOO's stunning commission for Merinda Park Station, Cranbourne is now open.

The Merinda Park Station stands on the site of a pre-colonial marshland, and Woo's artwork 'Reflections', places the memory of water overhead. As Woo writes, the installation recalls 'patterns created by water droplets, or the undulations created around moving reeds or trees that once flourished in the wetland.'

OPENING: NATURE KNOT

OPENING TONIGHT

NATURE KNOT: what does it mean to be tied, bound, connected, tangled with nature?

An exhibition of work tethered to the natural world. Humans create knots to secure and to hold onto things tightly. But the natural world hates constraints and resists our desire to ensnare.

Featuring ARC ONE Gallery’s Cyrus Tang, Honey Long & Prue Stent, joined by Marina Rolfe, the 2022 recipient of the ARC ONE Artist Opportunity

All welcome. OPEN from 6PM, Wednesday, 8 February.

ARC ONE Partners with Jayden Ong Wines

ARC ONE Gallery is thrilled to partner with Jayden Ong Wines.

A celebrated sommelier who turned first-generation winemaker, Jayden launched his first wine label, One Block, in 2010. Since then, he has established three more: Jayden Ong, La Maison de Ong and his range of skin-contact wines, Moonlit Forest.

Using minimal agricultural chemicals and preservatives is important to Jayden: “I’ve always found it weird that you kill one thing to grow another with chemicals.” His wines give us an opportunity to “grow pure-tasting fruit.”

We’ll be serving Jayden Ong Wines at our next opening this Wednesday (6PM, 8 February), for our group exhibition NATURE KNOT. You can also visit Jayden's gorgeous Winery & Cellar Bar in Healesville.